“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them” — John Green Copy Share Image
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.” — John Green Copy Share Image
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While… — John Green Copy Share Image
“WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, "Hopefully, go find a guy who… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. we'll have a shared tombstone. It'll read, 'Holmesy and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yeah,” I said. “What is that? A bird? "It’s the swan,” he said. “Wow. A school with a swan. Wow.” “That swan… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he’s in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such… — john green Copy Share Image
“If taking a pill makes you different, lie, if it changes the way-down you...that's just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who's deciding… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. 'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked. She looked at… — Looking for Alaska John Green Copy Share Image
“A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location… — John Green Copy Share Image